Yahoo Answer Babbies, Bad Pings, Python Bugs, & Spectre Attacks – Wrap Up – SWN #120
This week in the Security Weekly News Wrap Up Dr. Doug talks: Pings are bad, m'kay, Yahoo Answers, Python ipaddress bugs and the curse of octal, Deepfakes, Qualcom, Spectre, First Horizon Bank, & the show Wrap Ups for this week!
Host
Doug White
Professor at Roger Williams University
- 1. Deepfake Attacks Are About to Surge, Experts Warn
- 2. New Crypto-Stealer ‘Panda’ Spread via Discord
- 3. Feds Shut Down Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Phishing Website
- 4. Qualcomm Chip Bug Opens Android Fans to Eavesdropping
- 5. New Windows ‘Pingback’ malware uses ICMP for covert communication
- 6. First Horizon Bank Customers Have Account Funds Drained
- 7. New micro-op cache attacks break all Spectre defences
- 8. Python also impacted by critical IP address validation vulnerability
- 9. Yahoo Answers showed us how strange the Internet can be
